enjoy life. âone bite at a time. Located in Scottsdale, Cafe Forte is a purveyor of inspired American dining from the esteemed Chef Grace Rubel. Cafe Forte opened in April 1996 and has since led the locally sourced food movement in heart of Old Town Scottsdale Art District.
1991: Yeltsin wins first Russian elections. Boris Yeltsin is celebrating victory as Russia's first popularly-elected president. The 60-year-old reformer and leader of the group Democratic Russia has inflicted a heavy defeat on the Communist Party which has ruled the country since the 1917 Revolution.
Vladimir Lenin was a Russian revolutionary leader and theorist, who presided over the first government of Soviet Russia and then that of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). Lenin was the leader of the radical socialist Bolshevik Party (later renamed the Communist Party), which seized power in the October phase of the Russian Revolution of 1917. After the revolution, Lenin headed the new Soviet government that formed in Russia. He became the leader of the USSR upon its founding in 1922. Lenin held the highest post in the Soviet government until his death in 1924, when Joseph Stalin assumed power. Lenin was born Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov in the city of Simbirsk in central European Russia.